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Reach for Eternity, part 2

Faith

God longs to supply your needs; but evil thoughts prevent Him from meeting your needs. Learn to abide in His love. Learn to trust Him in all things. Walk by faith. Faith will move all mountains. Faith is received in the wee hours of the morning. Persevere! He that endureth to the end will be saved.
Do all things by faith. Whatever is not of faith is sin. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Whatever you do at home, on the job, or in helping another; do all by faith. All deeds, even simple deeds, done by faith are mighty deeds.
Repetitive faithless prayers are of little value. Prayers of faith have great value and always move the hand of God. Faith overcomes all enemies. Faith is a two way street. Faith is received by intimate prayer; it also empowers intimate prayer.
Faith is made alive by works. Faith without works can not move the hand of God. Faith comes from the inward man. Your mind can not produce faith. People who do great works of faith often do not understand how they got it; they got it in developing the new man. Mental faith can not produce eternal results. True faith must proceed from your spirit. True faith comes only from intimate knowledge of God.
All who seek God in the wee hours of the morning will find Him, if they faint not. God loves to meet with you and will always be found by those who seek Him. God is always eager to meet with you and has already prepared the things you need; but sometimes we need to learn diligence before we are prepared to receive.
God does not respond to begging, repetition, or self inflicted punishment; God only responds to faith. The problem of receiving from God does not depend on God’s eagerness or willingness; but on our asking in faith. When God’s people ask in faith; it is God’s absolute delight to give to us abundantly.
When our affections are on things above; when we are at one with the creator of the universe; our very thoughts will be prayers that will be answered immediately. To be at one with the creator of the universe means our privilege is the very highest privilege of all; what can this world offer compared to that.
When you are one with the Creator your every thought will create immediately. In the high place your thoughts affect spirit, soul, and body; thoughts of health heal your body, your mind, and cause growth in your spirit.
We are nearing the end of this age; as we get nearer to the end our words will begin to produce more and more effect. Words are becoming more and more effective; bad words produce curses and good words produce blessings. Words are very important; when the demons confessed Jesus as the Son of God Jesus told them to be quiet; when the fortune telling girl told who Paul was he cast the demon out. Even when a person speaks truth you must check who is saying it.
I hear or read of some so called prophet’s predictions for 2005 or 2006 and I realize that for the most part God does not lead that way though He will do it at times as He wants us to live by faith in the present. Always live in the present and trust the past and the future to God; so I have little confidence in those kinds of predictions.
If you have been predicting a lot of things and a number of them fail to materialize than just consider yourself a false prophet; God has very profitable things for you to do if you just ask Him.
God wants us to use our creative powers to build each other up: If you see your brother or sister with many bad habits and other problems; you can see him or her as victorious and you can even say so to them; your faith in your brother will help to build them up and begin to produce in them now what you do not yet see. If you are a tale bearer you may tear down what little they still have; tale bearing is a creative force also, but in a negative manner.
Always think the very best you can about your brother; see what he can be and call into being those things that are not yet as though they already were; what measure you mete it will be measured back to you again. If you build up your brother you will also be built up.
It must be noted that I am not speaking about mental concentration or flattery; but by the Spirit of God; the carnal mind can only tear down but the Spirit creates good.
In no way must we condone or join in our brother’s sin; but we must lift our brother out of his sin. Paul says in 11 Corinthians 5: 16 that “We are not to know anyone after the flesh.” Always edify and build your brother never tear him down.
We live in a world of great darkness created by sin and willful disobedience. A world of darkness can cause depression and sorrow. A world of darkness makes life not worth while; except that we have Jesus walking beside us; we must also lift others up. Jesus is the light; there is no darkness in Him and the closer you get to Jesus the better you are able to see.
God has invested great power in you and as you lift other people up you become a great threat to the powers of darkness; never think for one moment that Satan will just let you take his kingdom without a fight; the more of a threat you become the more Satan will resist you.
We tend to think that our battles are the things we see and face every day; but in reality the real battles are in the unseen realm. If we perceive the battle to be the seen world we are ineffective; but God would have us battle the unseen and win.
In the seen world we use argument, policemen, courts, guns, and other visible weapons; but in the unseen realm we use love, joy, peace, all the fruit of the Spirit, the whole armor of God, and the Word of God. The weapons that Sons of God use to fight the real enemy are spiritual and all powerful. Our brethren are not our enemies. The people of the world are not our enemies. Invisible principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world they are our enemies; they have no defense against our weapons, except as they can get you not to use them.
I would like to encourage you to spend much time with God and walk with Him that is what activates the fruit of the Spirit, the Word, and the armor of God. When you fight with demons make sure you use the right weapons or you will lose.
When you walk with Jesus you are at peace and feel satisfied; but you must be careful to always choose His will over your own and never thwart His will; following our own will is what brought all the darkness to this earth.
The darkness of self will completely cover this earth in a few short years; this will be a time of trouble such as the earth has never seen before. We have a short window of opportunity to draw close to God and be a real help to those around us; let us make use of every opportunity to grow and help our fellow Christians to prepare for that day.
God is our guide; He is leading us; but we must always respond to Him as a little child; simple child like faith is what makes great men and women. The great works that God will have us do in these last days will be done in simple child like faith and obedience.
We are entering into some of the greatest days of this earth as God is about to separate the light from the darkness; but first we must go through the greatest period of deception this world has ever known. In the coming days Satan will do great miracles, even raising the dead that those who depend on anything other than Christ, may be deceived and turned out of the way.
Seek to be delivered from every self tie that ties you to earthly things as they will hinder you from entering into the Kingdom. Self Ties: wealth, lusts, recognition, entertainment, and power. Other self ties past failures must also be removed; looking back will keep you from looking forward. Confess and repent of all sins and failures then forsake them.
Jesus is our shield from storms, sins, failures, and a reward far exceeding anything of this world. Jesus: our reward not for good deeds, for our deeds merit nothing; but the Obedience of Faith and only God knows all the reasons.
Have Faith in God. The proof of Faith is works: step out in Faith on everything God tells you, once you see that it is God that said it.
Pray daily for Faith, all the Faith you need to do the works of God; without Faith no great work for God can be accomplished, it is the prerequisite for every great work. Faith overcomes every difficulty. Faith overcomes every enemy.
Pray daily for Faith: by Faith you receive your answer from God; by Faith nothing can stand before you; by Faith you beget even greater Faith; all Eternal things come by Faith; but unless you hear from God you can have no Eternal Faith.

Resurrection Power

Recently the Lord shared a thing of enormous consequence with me: this I would like to share with you. In Matthew 5: 10- 12 Jesus said, “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted the prophets which before you.”
When Jesus was before the Sanhedrin and before Pilot: He was reviled, He was beaten, they put a crown of thorns on His head, all this was done to gain the power of resurrection, and that power may be passed on to us. Jesus faced the persecution without a word of self defense, God was His defense.
Jesus says that when we face persecution leaving our entire defense to Him we also receive the power of resurrection; which in turn we can share with our brethren who are persecuting us. Always remember that our brethren are not our enemies; but Satan and his host, our brethren think they are doing God a service.
When our brethren persecute us, we have the honor of asking God to forgive them for they do not know what they are doing; you may draw them to yourself in real Love and Forgiveness; you have the privilege of sharing the power God gives to you, with them.
Another very important point: Look at your brethren as overcomers, as walking in the Spirit, as doing the will of God, and see only the very best in them; you will be calling those things that are not yet as though they already were; the power of your thoughts and words to change your brethren are enormous.
Always remember that what you do even to your most wayward brother, you are doing it to Christ; remember when you were the one who needed a brother who would love you that way; what way you treat your brother so you will be treated.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever and He never changes. Jesus was crucified before the foundation of the world. Jesus was crucified 2000 years ago. Jesus in a figure is being crucified right now, and when we receive His life we also help Him carry His cross.
Lay down your life; crucify the flesh; and lay hold on His Eternal Life. Jesus laid down His life for us and we need to lay down our lives for Him.

Growth

The Christian life can sometimes seem like drudgery: just a continuous succession of little things and no big exciting things. Jesus works in little things for the most part to bring about change in our lives. Jesus knows when we become faithful in the little things it prepares us for the big things. One of the greatest things Jesus is developing in us is faithfulness.
Never despise the day of little things. No one was born an astronaut; but he started on milk than stronger food; he started to crawl than walk; he started in the first grade than went up through college; and than he went through intense astronaut training. In your Christian life you always start small; but the big things will come through much training. A first Grader will be discouraged if given college math; so will a young Christian if he is required to do the big things.
Jesus is doing an intricate work in each of our lives; but it is going require obedience in very many little things. There is nothing that is too small for Jesus to use; let Him use everything. Jesus is interested in a cup of coffee, a bottle of pop, pants, shirts, ties, and every little thing.
People seem to get bound up in many things that hold them in bondage. One of the things God will touch on is things that hold us in bondage. We can not set others free if our own lives are full of bondages. Many of the things are quite alright in themselves, except that we are in bondage to them. Those who are faithful in little things will be given things in the future that stagger the imagination.
Anything that holds us in bondage is a thing Jesus does not control. Be silent before Him. Seek to know His will. Seek to do His will.
Much of the work God does in your life will really come right out of your own divine nature: when you just love others instead of trying to correct them; it begins to build a protective screen which defends you from darts of the enemy.

Undisturbed

When people come against do you retaliate? When people come against you do you get mad or even? When people come against you, do you see them as your enemy? Can you see that your only enemies are the world, the flesh, and the devil?
Our number one enemy is the Flesh; if we conquer the flesh all other enemies will also be conquered.
If someone comes against you, you must first recognize that the enemy is principalities and powers of darkness and not the person themselves.
Secondly you must recognize that the only part of you that can be disturbed is your flesh (self); therefore if you get disturbed it means that your flesh is still alive.
Your next course of action must be the crucifixion of the flesh. When someone comes against you and you are disturbed then say to yourself, “That is self and it must die.” When trouble comes, never see it as coming from without, but from within. When a person offends you, they only exposed what needs to be changed in your own life.
People, Satan, and the world can only expose what is wrong in your own life, they can not hurt you. No matter what the trouble, if you will receive it, it can only do the favor of exposing what must be changed.
Your next course of action is: To practice over and over destroying the flesh till no problem will ever again disturb your peace. The work that God would have you do can only be done in peace; so always restore a disturbed mind to peace before trying to work for God.
Sometimes God gives you things you really wanted and you feel you are on top of the world; but that is not where the real growth takes place; real growth comes from faithfulness in the little things. The little things that often seem boring, faithfully performed will produce steady growth.
When a person tries to lose weight on a crash diet; they soon lose control and may get heavier than before. When a person little by little takes control of their diet; they can over a period of time see a distinct difference in their weight; they must see it as a life long change.
If you have bad habits, sins, and other weights holding you back spiritually; you must take the long view. Overcome the weights in your life a little at a time; do not let holidays and other occasions be times to splurge, they will break your control.
Whenever you put off the old man always put on the new man at the same time; every negative action must be followed with a positive action. Put off the old man with his deeds, and put on the new man; who is created in righteousness and true holiness.
When the self life is destroyed, the new self must take its place. Put you on the Lord Jesus Christ. The new life is like a mosaic: every piece is put in its proper place to build the new self.

No Other Gods before Me

Isaiah 40: 31, “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;” We seem to think this only refers to the spirit and soul; but God tells me it also refers to the body.
God has been teaching me many things about waiting on Him for strength; all other sources are supplanting His work and is therefore idolatry; also a form of anti-Christ. Our work is to wait on Him, and His work is to provide health and strength.
For years I spent a lot of time and money on health foods and vitamins; God has required me to get off of all those things. I had a heart attack (not confirmed) about 25 years ago; I had a lot of angina pain and was very weak; my blood pressure was usually 100 over 90; I could not set on the floor or wear a tight belt. I was told vitamin E and lecithin was what I needed to restore my health; I took that advice and my blood pressure was up to 115 over 85 in about three months.
About eight months ago God told me to get off of it; since God has taken me off every health food and addicting substance. When God told me to get off coffee it was very hard to do, but He lets me have a cup once in a while, I just dare not let it have any control over my life, I tried to substitute tea but God would not allow it.
Recently God showed me that my job was to do what He said, and His job was to give me health. I work nine hour days many times in the hot sunshine and come home tired; so I would drink a large glass of tomato juice to restore electrolytes and strength, but God also forbid that: I can drink tomato juice as a food, but not for restoration. God is my health, my strength, and my restoration.

Law of Sin and Death

Romans 8: 2, “The law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
First let me explain the difference between being made free and set free: when you are made free, it becomes a very part of your nature; but set free means, a temporary change of position.
When you are made free it is Eternal; but set free is temporary. When you are made free no matter what prison you are put in you are still free inside.
What is the “Law of Sin and Death”?
When God made man He had certain design in mind: He put in man certain limitations and certain strengths. Man was designed with a body something like Moses: to live so their eyes do not dim and their strength does not abate till their time has come to go; actually it is more to it then that but let that suffice for now.
Man however has chosen to sin, therefore the “Law of Sin and Death’ has been applied. The “Law of Sin and Death” has altered the state of health of mankind introducing much sorrow, sickness, disease, cripples, and even death.
In the book “Scenes beyond the Grave” it calls this process, “Violated Law”. All sickness, disease, and premature death come from violated law or the law of sin and death. Paul says, “That the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ has made us free from the law of sin and death;” though this is true, yet we will not see it in our lives until we spend much time with God Believing and Doing what He says.
Violated law does not affect only our own lives; but our children, and our children’s children until a generation stops it. Violated law causes spontaneous abortions, birth defects, childhood diseases as well as senile problems. God has given us the power to stop every effect of the law of sin and death if we would just do it.
All the promises of God are fulfilled only by Faith, which comes by time spent with God and doing what He tells you. Until a Christian spends time with God, doing what He says their health will take the same course as the sinner, most think it is just normal (doctrine of devils).
Don’t think that you can do the duty of certain Christian offices or positions and it will be the same as doing what God says. In Churches there are certain people very active and doing many things; but God may have had little input in what they are doing. A preacher may be ordained by God, yet coming up with his own sermons; that is not doing what God says.
The Flesh is very subtle and very good at masquerading as spiritual. With all the helps and methods of Bible study today a person can appear very spiritual, and seemingly preach good sermons; but only the Spirit can change lives.
Check to see if they are still subject to the “Law of Sin and Death”; a person who spends the time with God will have overcome much of the “Law of Sin and Death”.
When the Day of the Lord comes you must be completely free of bondage to the law of sin and death or it will keep you from standing in that day. I listen to many preachers and love to hear their messages; but if I tried to count on one hand those who understood this law I don’t think I could count every finger on my one hand; is there any wonder that sickness and disease runs rampant in the church just like the world.
Are you born again? If you are born again you are a family member, and all you need to do is to reach out and take what you need to fulfill all God’s will in your life; but if you still succumb to the law of sin and death, you will not have enough faith.
You may be excusing your lack of faith as, God just wants to keep me humble; and then you’re blaming God instead of your lack of discipline. Discipline yourself to get up early in the morning, and spend quality time with God and do what He says; this will develop your faith.
All the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Sun of Righteousness

The Sun of Righteousness: The Eternal Light; All God’s people who live very close to Him have the Eternal Light emanating from them.
Eternal Light is received only from close contact with the Source of Eternal Light. Eternal Light is received by deep intimate contact early in the morning with Jesus, and by practicing that contact all day long.
When one contains and radiates Eternal Light, no sickness or disease can take hold of him/her. Evil, sin, sickness, disease, or any darkness can not exist in the presence of Holy Light.
If God’s people only realized the advantages of living in Light rather than pursuing darkness: pursuing the Lord rather than riches; meeting with God instead of watching television; pursuing holiness instead of amusement; divine health rather than medical security; fulfillment and security in Christ instead of locks, bolts, and insurance.
When Eternal Light emanates from us, it will change all we come in contact with, even if no words are spoken. Not only is it required for us to manifest Eternal Light; but it is our great privilege to manifest it.

Seeing Christ

How do men see Christ? Some see Christ as a good man; some as a prophet; some as a good teacher; some see Him as one very dedicated even to the point of death; some see Him as the Son of God.
You may be a Christian. You may believe Christ to be the Son of God. You may see Him as the only source of salvation. Is Christ to the one who died 2000 years ago? Has He become your personal Saviour? Christ is seen in many ways by various people; but I would like to show you a personal way He can be your complete source.
Do not see Christ afar off or in the past tense; see Him in the ever present now. What is it that you need? Are you weak? Jesus is your Strength. Are you strong? Jesus is your tenderness. Are you lost? Jesus will find you. Are tempted or have fallen into sin? Jesus is your salvation. Have you become a strong overcomer are you righteous? Jesus is your compassion toward the sinners.
Are you lonely? Jesus is your friend and companion. Are you willing and able to fight? Jesus will be your leader. Whatever your need, Jesus is your source.
I found as I spent much time with Jesus; that He fulfilled my every need. Jesus has become my food supplements, my sleep, my healing, my wealth, and everything I need.
What is Jesus to you? Jesus will be to you what you see Him to be. To see Jesus with the eye of flesh will prophet you nothing. Jesus becomes to you what you see in Him to be with the eye of the Spirit. The eye of the Spirit is activated by much time spent with Him.
No man can be all these things to you; only the God Man. How do you see Christ; this is one of the most important questions to ask yourself.

Character Change

What is your character? We can tell a lot about our character by what we do when no one is around. One of the good things about the internet is that it is easy to examine our character to see what needs to be changed.
Is it easy to look at pornography when no is seeing what you are doing? You need a character change. Do you do a lot of window shopping in stores or on the internet? You need a character change. Many little tests can be made in examination of our characters; I am sure all of us can find something that needs to be changed.
In order for a character change to take place many things must come into place first: First you must meet with the Lord on the mountain; (meet with God in your quiet times; get a revelation of the will of the Lord; and behold His Glory).
Many things you can do in your quiet time, all necessary to learn what you must do and how to build your spirit and soul; but none will actually produce the necessary change, they only prepare you for change; changes in character take place in the valley not on the mountain.
Real character change takes place in the time of testing: Troubles, trials, temptations, wants, failures, and sometimes even sins are needed to produce real change in your nature. Note: purposeful sinning develops the wrong nature; but when you have done everything you know to do yet you sin, you can learn much from such experiences.
Real change takes place in the valley: when we are in the valley facing all kinds of trials and testings, by a process that I do not know the Spirit of God produces great change in our lives. When it seems like God is nowhere to be found and we rely on what we learned on the mount, the Spirit does great change in our lives (our characters).
When we eat God’s Word it is sweet in our mouths, but bitter in our stomachs; as long as we respond properly to both, it will produce great change.
In Daniel 11: 33-35 he says, that many of those with understanding in these days will fall to try them and to make them white. When you face temptations and you have tried everything you know, yet still you fall; if you repent and get back up it will only serve to change you.
Every kind of trial and trouble when properly responded to, are more valuable than all the wealth of this world; however purposeful sinning will only develop the wrong nature.
When you sin always repent immediately then forget it; do not let Satan keep beating you over the head with it. When you sin and than spend a lot time in remorse, you are only wasting precious time that could be used to build yourself up.
If you keep falling over a long time and can’t seem to stop, e-mail me, my e-mail is, frank@thetrueword.com and I will help you to identify what is tripping you up.

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